I know most of you have heard seen this many, many times over the last week…but it bears viewing again. For this is a clear picture of a person stating lies under the cover of Christian belief as if it were fact. It is sickening, vile and disgusting. There have been thousands of responses to […]
From Romans 1 to 1 Corinthians, GLBT people are told that the New Testament is a source of condemnation of their very lives. When people quote Bible verses against GLBT people, these two verses are most often used from the New Testament. Our second part of the Homosexuality and the Bible teleseminar series has been
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We have just gone through an awful couple of weeks. There was a mass shooting at a mall in the Chicago area and then at a University in Illinois another mass shooting. If that were not enough a 15 year old boy was shot in the head and killed by a 14 year old boy
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We have begun the 6 week journey of reflection and introspection ofourselves that leads to the Easter experience. I was reflecting on what to write when I recieved an e-mail that caught my attention. I belong to a gay clery list serve and one of the members shared somethoughts concerning this Church season. I thought
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A couple of weeks ago, my best friend who is HIV positive and has been since 1994, let me know that the medical cocktail he had been taking was no longer working. His viral load had gone from undetectable to unacceptable levels. He has been feeling tired of late and he has had to deal
Listening to the news, reading the blogs and listening to “professional Christians talk today I was left with some questions. When did the church quite being “followers of Christ” and become the zealots of “power and control”? When did we forget the main teaching of Jesus the Christ was to call people back into relationship
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I was sitting here this afternoon thinking I should write something for the end of the year. Of course that is what everybody is doing. Looking back over all the stuff that happened during 2007. The year 2007 will be reviewed in print, in video and radio till we are just sick of it. There
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Just when I think things cannot get worse…the 2 stories come across my desk. Now mind you over the last couple of months there have been more then our fair share of really bad things happening to our community, but these two set up tonight’s soapbox. “Gay teen couple made to sit apart on bus
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My coming out days was lived out in Chicago, Illinois (1965-1982). I also came out prior to HIV/AIDS being part of our everyday lives. The gay community in Chicago during my time there was party central but also a close nit community. Over the years I developed close friendships with a group of people that
Get a cup of coffee or some hot chocolate and get comfortable…this is a little longer then usual. You know it was bad enough that I had not even got Thanksgiving fully into my mind, had not gone through my annual cry of, “how much weight will I gain this year?” When I started receiving